Deir Abu Da'if (Arabic: دير ابو ضعيف) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 6 km east of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,293 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 7,045 in 2017.[1][3]
Deir Abu Da'if | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | دير ابو ضعيف |
  Deir Abu Da'if Location of Deir Abu Da'if within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°27′21″N 35°21′57″E / 32.45583°N 35.36583°E | |
| Palestine grid | 184/206 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
• Total | 7,045 |
| Name meaning | The convent of Abu Daif, p. n.=father of the weak, or lean one[2] |
History
editThe village, not mentioned in 16th century tax records, was likely established in the modern era, with its settlers coming from Hebron.[4]
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[5]
The nearby village of 'Abba, deserted after the 16th century, is now settled by people from Deir Abu Daif.[4]
Ottoman era
editIn 1838, Edward Robinson noted Deir Abu Da'if as one of a range of villages round a height, the other villages being named as Beit Qad, Fuku'a, Deir Ghuzal and Araneh.[6]
In 1870 Victor Guérin noted it as a small village, south of Beit Qad, but less important than it. Guérin called the village for Ed-Deir.[7]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Shafa al-Qibly.[8]
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it: "A small village near the edge of the hills, on rising ground. The water supply is from cisterns. Olive- gardens exist on the north. The houses are of mud and stone."[9]
British Mandate era
editIn the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 441; 434 Muslims and 7 Christians,[10] where the Christians were all Orthodox,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 598; 593 Muslims and 5 Christians, with 136 houses.[12]
In 1944/5 statistics the population was 850, all Muslims,[13] with a total of 12,906 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[14] Of this, 1,919 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,836 dunams were for cereals,[15] while 30 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[16]
Jordanian era
editAfter the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Deir Abu Da'if came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,191 inhabitants.[17]
Post-1967
editDeir Abu Da'if has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Six-Day War.
References
edit- ^ a b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 160
- ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived September 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ^ a b Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 349
- ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 787
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 157
- ^ Guérin, 1874, p. 334
- ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 255.
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 83
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 67
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
- ^ Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 25
Bibliography
edit- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Guérin, V. (1874). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
External links
edit- Welcome To Dayr Abu Da'if
- Deir Abu Da’if, welcome to Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons
